# Trivia Dominoes: Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 4, 2010, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657 "2010-02-04T08:12:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1584
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/31667 "2016-09-14T13:47:18Z")
A Navy petty officer just recently gave birth aboard a deployed aircraft carrier. She claims she didn’t know she was pregnant. Son of a gun! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/31668 "2016-09-14T13:55:11Z")
The Navy sailor gave birth aboard the _Nimitz_-class supercarrier USS _Dwight D. Eisenhower_, which was commissioned in 1977 during the Carter Administration, and can be seen in this vertiginous photograph: [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/CVN-69-SPIE-training.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/CVN-69-SPIE-training.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/31669 "2016-09-14T15:06:23Z")
In September 1996, Amy Carter, daughter of former President Jimmy Carter, married computer consultant James Gregory Wentzel, whom she had met while attending Tulane University. Carter chose not to be given away, stating that she “belonged to no one”. Carter kept her own family name and the couple moved to the Atlanta area, where they continue to live and focus on raising their son, Hugo James Wentzel (born July 29, 1999). In Atlanta, Hugo attended Paideia, Since the late 1990s, Carter has maintained a low profile, neither participating in public protests nor granting interviews. She is a member of the board of counselors of the Carter Center that advocates human rights and diplomacy as established by her father. Carter illustrated her father’s children’s book _The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer_ (1996). ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/31670 "2016-09-14T16:59:56Z")
Nigeria-born Hugo Weaving was already a major Australian film star, before being cast in “Matrix” and “Lord of the Rings”. Like all Australian stars, he resisted being typecast, making his first international splash in “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/31671 "2016-09-14T17:29:33Z")
Hugo Weaving played multiple roles in the sf epic _Cloud Atlas_, as did fellow castmembers Halle Berry, Tom Hanks, Hugh Grant, Doona Bae, Keith David and others. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/31672 "2016-09-14T20:37:41Z")
_Cloud Atlas_ (2012) consists of several plot lines across six different eras: Pacific Islands, 1849 Cambridge/Edinburgh, 1936 San Francisco, 1973 London, 2012 Neo Seoul, 2144 Big Island of Hawaii, 106 winters after the Fall (2321) Film critic Roger Ebert praised the film, including, “I was never, ever bored by _Cloud Atlas_.” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/31673 "2016-09-14T21:26:06Z")
On September 27, 2016. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera will celebrate _30 years_ on London’s West End. That’s **30 years**!!! ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/31674 "2016-09-14T21:48:21Z")
Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra was adapted numerous times for film and stage; prior to the Andrew Lloyd Webber version, the most successful was the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/31675 "2016-09-14T22:12:00Z")
\*Fantome \*was a 679-ton staysail schooner owned by Windjammer Barefoot Cruises in Miami, Florida. Completed in 1927 by the Duke of Westminster, she was purchased by Windjammer in 1969, and became flagship of the fleet. During her twenty-nine years of service in this regard, \*Fantome \*offered cruises in the Caribbean and the Bay of Honduras. She was lost in October 1998, during Hurricane Mitch. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/31676 "2016-09-15T00:07:24Z")
The inner part of the Bay (or Gulf) of Honduras is lined by the Belize Barrier Reef which forms the southern part of the 900 km long Meso-American Barrier Reef System, the second-largest coral reef system in the world. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/31677 "2016-09-15T00:17:13Z")
In philosophy, the term “world” has several possible meanings. In some contexts, it refers to everything that makes up reality or the physical universe. In others, it can mean have a specific ontological sense (see world disclosure). While clarifying the concept of world has arguably always been among the basic tasks of Western philosophy, this theme appears to have been raised explicitly only at the start of the twentieth century and has been the subject of continuous debate. The question of what the world is has by no means been settled. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/31678 "2016-09-15T00:59:21Z")
The song “What a Wonderful World” was initially offered to Tony Bennett, who turned it down. Then, it was offered to Louis Armstrong. George Weiss recounts in the book Off the Record: Songwriters on Songwriting by Graham Nash that he wrote the song (in 1967) specifically for Armstrong. Weiss was inspired by Armstrong’s ability to bring people of different races together. The song was not initially a hit in the United States, where it sold fewer than 1,000 copies because ABC Records head Larry Newton did not like the song and therefore did not promote it, but was a major success in the United Kingdom, reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/31679 "2016-09-15T02:30:36Z")
The first incarnation of what is now Disney’s _It’s a Small World_ debuted at the 1964 New York World’s Fair. It opened on 22 April 1964. Some 50 years later, in April 2014, Time magazine said that _It’s a Small World_ is likely the most played song ever in history. It has been played, as of then, some 50 million times. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/31680 "2016-09-15T03:42:02Z")
Louis Armstrong’s version of “What a Wonderful World” may be heard - used ironically both times - in the movies _Good Morning, Vietnam_ and _12 Monkeys_. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/31681 "2016-09-15T09:31:29Z")
Louis Armstrong pronounced his name “Lewis”. In _Hello, Dolly!_ Armstrong sings the title song and he begins his part with these lyrics, \*Hello, Dolly! This is Lewis, Dolly \* ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/31682 "2016-09-15T11:11:35Z")
In 1964, Armstrong’s recording of the song, “Hello, Dolly!”, rose to number one on the Billboard pop chart, making Armstrong, at age 62, the oldest person ever to accomplish that feat. In the process, Armstrong dislodged The Beatles “Can’t Buy Me Love” from the number-one position they had occupied for 14 consecutive weeks with three different songs. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/31683 "2016-09-15T13:17:21Z")
In 1952, Armstrong County South Dakota ceased to exist. With a population of only 23, and most of its best land flooded by the Oahe Dam reservoir, the county was annexed to Dewey County. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/31684 "2016-09-15T13:42:10Z")
Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. The Armstrong Air and Space Museum is located in his hometown of Wapakoneta, Ohio, United States. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/31685 "2016-09-15T13:56:18Z")
When he was learning to fly in the US Navy, Neil Armstrong had to practice carrier landings. His very first jet carrier landing was on the USS _Essex_ (CV-9) [in](http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=51836) 1951, the same year that _Essex_ was recommissioned after she served in WWII. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/31686 "2016-09-15T14:42:38Z")
A Navy veteran, Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the Moon, was buried at sea from the deck of the guided-missile cruiser USS _Philippine Sea_ in 2012. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1583) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1585)